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...talk of Nicaragua last week was a poem. Honoring the memory of assassinated Dictator Anastasio ("Tacho") Somoza-and reminding Nicaraguans that his dynasty continues in his sons-the government newspaper Novedades offered $140 for the best verse of homage to the dead President. The winning entry was 14 lines of flowery verse ("Renowned paladin and cavalier/Glory of America!"). Managua's citizens, by and large, read it glumly, but here and there a face lit up with malicious appreciation. Novedades' editors ran the poem (which was signed with a pen name) for several days-until they, too, noticed that...
...spent two years and seven months in a Perón jail for refusing to wear a black mourning band after Evita Perón's death. Shortly after the dictator's downfall, he was appointed as Argentine ambassador to Nicaragua at a time when Strongman Anastasio ("Tacho") Somoza had publicly proclaimed that Perón would be welcome in Managua. Toranzo arranged a private talk between Tacho and Argentine President Pedro Aramburu; three days later Perón left Tacho's palace. Toranzo's big job in Caracas is to try to get Peron tossed...
...General Batista, No, No, No!). But his customers will not let one old Kontiki song die, even though its subject, President Anastasio ("Tacho") Somoza of Nicaragua, is no longer in the news-and no longer around. Telling the story of Somoza's assassination, it begins...
...half years you have been in Managua I have not once said 'no' to you?" It was true. During those war years, I had made many requests of him at the instance of the Secretary of State. I would hand my friend Tacho a memorandum. He would read it, initial it and, smiling, hand it back, saying, "O.K., Jeemmy, send a copy to the Foreign Office." And so, by means of this short cut, Washington would often receive a reply to its telegraphic request the same day it was dispatched...
Born. To Luis Anastasio Somoza de Bayle, 33, President of Nicaragua since the assassination of his father. Dictator Anastasio ("Tacho") Somoza, last month, and Isabel Urcuyo de Somoza: a fifth son, sixth child; in Managua, Nicaragua. Name: Heraldo. Weight...